Reflective Essay Reminders. Rough Draft due today.
To describe a meaningful event in your life while conveying you thoughts/feelings about it.
1) Use specific examples.
2) Write with a personal tone.
3) Indent new paragraphs
4) Use MLA format.
Name,teacher,class,date
Double space, regular (New Times Roman)font
3) Precise nouns.
Good writers avoid general, abstract nouns and
Instead choose specific, precise nouns to make
Their writing clearer and more interesting.
Ex.
General:
I drove my car to a restaurant.
Precise:
I drove my Escalade to Cousin’s Catfish.
Practice. Make the general nouns in these sentences more precise.
1. The boys came to the game and
made fun of the player on the other team.
2. She dumped her boyfriend at the restaurant.
3. I saw the C.D. at the store.
Review page 389
Reflective Essay.
1) Describes personal experiences or pivotal events and conveys his/her feelings about these events or experiences.
(Describe event and explain its significance to you)
*Use specific details/examples
*Write with personal tone
Will there be enough physical details to describe?
Will there be enough thoughts and feelings to relate?
Narrow down and focus on a minimum of thoughts and feelings that you will describe in great detail.
Choose a topic from personal effects at home or from list on page 390.
This week’s vocabulary:
recluse nonchalant audacity
disdain disposition adorn loiter
robust promontory filament
Write sentences for each. Precise Nouns
4- the writer consistently uses precise nouns
instead of general nouns
3- the writer uses some general nouns
instead of precise nouns
2- the writer uses more general nouns than
precise nouns
1- the writer consistently uses general nouns, lending the descriptions a generic
tone.
Example #1
My mother was an overweight woman. It was probably because cooking was her hobby. Every holiday my mother provided a complete buffet for the family. To her, making relatives a little bit fatter was a duty and an act of love.
After one particularly big meal on Thanksgiving Day, my mother went to see my sister, Angela, act in the Shakespearian play “The Tempest”. Part way through the first act, my mother noticed that Angela, who was to play the part of a tree, was being kept off the stage by the teacher/ director for some unknown reason. So my mother decided to get up and…
Personal Tone:
4- the writer gives the essay a heartfelt, personal
tone
3- the writer gives a friendly tone to the opening
and closing paragraphs, but is not informal
through
2-the writer rarely uses a personal tone in the
essay
1- the writer uses stiff, formal language and an
impersonal tone
Example #2
With sweat rolling down her fat, red cheeks, the round woman, who seemed to have been stuffed into a skirt that was too tight, screamed, “You all don’t laugh at my girl any more!” Her double chins continued to vibrate long into the silence that she had created in the crowded middle school auditorium.
Parents in their seats and child actors stared at the woman. They weren’t sure what they were looking at, but I knew. I was looking at an act of love. My mother cared enough about her daughter to stand up for her, no matter what…even if it meant embarrassing us.
To describe a meaningful event in your life while conveying you thoughts/feelings about it.
1) Use specific examples.
2) Write with a personal tone.
3) Indent new paragraphs
4) Use MLA format.
Name,teacher,class,date
Double space, regular (New Times Roman)font
3) Precise nouns.
Good writers avoid general, abstract nouns and
Instead choose specific, precise nouns to make
Their writing clearer and more interesting.
Ex.
General:
I drove my car to a restaurant.
Precise:
I drove my Escalade to Cousin’s Catfish.
Practice. Make the general nouns in these sentences more precise.
1. The boys came to the game and
made fun of the player on the other team.
2. She dumped her boyfriend at the restaurant.
3. I saw the C.D. at the store.
Review page 389
Reflective Essay.
1) Describes personal experiences or pivotal events and conveys his/her feelings about these events or experiences.
(Describe event and explain its significance to you)
*Use specific details/examples
*Write with personal tone
Will there be enough physical details to describe?
Will there be enough thoughts and feelings to relate?
Narrow down and focus on a minimum of thoughts and feelings that you will describe in great detail.
Choose a topic from personal effects at home or from list on page 390.
This week’s vocabulary:
recluse nonchalant audacity
disdain disposition adorn loiter
robust promontory filament
Write sentences for each.
Precise Nouns
4- the writer consistently uses precise nouns
instead of general nouns
3- the writer uses some general nouns
instead of precise nouns
2- the writer uses more general nouns than
precise nouns
1- the writer consistently uses general nouns, lending the descriptions a generic
tone.
Example #1
My mother was an overweight woman. It was probably because cooking was her hobby. Every holiday my mother provided a complete buffet for the family. To her, making relatives a little bit fatter was a duty and an act of love.
After one particularly big meal on Thanksgiving Day, my mother went to see my sister, Angela, act in the Shakespearian play “The Tempest”. Part way through the first act, my mother noticed that Angela, who was to play the part of a tree, was being kept off the stage by the teacher/ director for some unknown reason. So my mother decided to get up and…
Personal Tone:
4- the writer gives the essay a heartfelt, personal
tone
3- the writer gives a friendly tone to the opening
and closing paragraphs, but is not informal
through
2-the writer rarely uses a personal tone in the
essay
1- the writer uses stiff, formal language and an
impersonal tone
Example #2
With sweat rolling down her fat, red cheeks, the round woman, who seemed to have been stuffed into a skirt that was too tight, screamed, “You all don’t laugh at my girl any more!” Her double chins continued to vibrate long into the silence that she had created in the crowded middle school auditorium.
Parents in their seats and child actors stared at the woman. They weren’t sure what they were looking at, but I knew. I was looking at an act of love. My mother cared enough about her daughter to stand up for her, no matter what…even if it meant embarrassing us.
Your name:
Author’s name:
1) meaningful event. Describe author’s
meaningful event:
2)convey thoughts/feelings: Write examples.
3) personal tone Yes or No
4)Indent paragraphs. Yes or No
4) MLA format. Yes or No
5) precise nouns. Give one example sentence:
7) Comments/advice/changes: